However, meaningful allyship starts before the hashtag, the selfie, and the purple outfit. So here’s the challenge: Before Friday, do ONE thing that gives a young LGBTQ person more than visibility. Give them access! - Introduce one young LGBTQ person to someone who could help their career. - Share the work of an emerging queer creator. - Buy something from a young LGBTQ entrepreneur. - Recommend an LGBTQ scholarship, program, organization, or professional resource. - Offer one piece of real-world mentorship, advice, or encouragement. Because visibility matters. But visibility without opportunity only goes so far. A share can introduce someone to a new audience. A recommendation can connect them to funding. A purchase can help build a business. A conversation can change a career path. An introduction can open a door they couldn’t open alone. That’s what LGBTQ leadership, queer youth mentorship, community support, and Pride 365 should look like. Wear the purple on Friday. Absolutely. But first, do something useful. Share this challenge with someone who has connections, resources, experience, or influence. 💜 #WearItPurple #LGBTQYouth #LGBTQLeadership #QueerYouth #Pride365

Yesterday, we defined where we want our businesses to be 30 days from now. Today, we make those goals usable. Because a monthly goal can feel motivating on Day 1 and overwhelming by Day 10 unless you break it into smaller actions. The simplest way to make progress is to take each 30-day goal and ask: What needs to happen every week for this goal to become realistic? For example, if your monthly sales goal is to sign four new clients, your weekly plan might include: • Contact 5 new prospects • Follow up with 3 warm leads • Make 1 clear offer • Ask for 1 referral If your marketing goal is stronger visibility, your weekly actions might be: • Publish 3 strategic posts • Send 1 email • Record 1 short video • Engage with 10 people in your target audience The same approach works for networking and leadership. Big goals become manageable when you turn them into repeatable weekly behaviors. Tuesday Action: Build Your Weekly Action List Take the four goals you created yesterday: Sales, Marketing, Networking, and Leadership, and write down ONE weekly action for each. Then ask: Can I realistically repeat this every week for the next 30 days? If the answer is no, simplify it. A strong action plan should challenge you without becoming another list you abandon. The goal is consistency, not exhaustion. YOUR TURN: Share one of your weekly action commitments in the comments. What is one thing you will intentionally repeat every week for the next 30 days? Tomorrow, we’ll go one step further and look at how to put those actions onto your calendar so your priorities stop competing with everything else. And remember to join us Thursday, August 27 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern for our Success Syndicate Coffee Chat. More Pride. More Profit. More Power.

Hello Success Syndicate Family. I hope you are all having a fantastic start to the week! As I posted this morning, I have been giving some serious thought to the Syndicate and where it’s at, where it’s going, and what I wanted it to be. I feel that we really started to create something good here in our little corner of the universe on the Skool platform, and I want to continue it. We have made some great connections, found new friends, and have all learned from and taught others about our business here. I have really enjoyed moderating things and it’s been a fun and welcome addition to my outside consulting of lgbtq small businesses. I really want to continue what we are doing together, but I want to make sure it’s worth both our members’ time and my own. I think for having over 100 members, for us really to be a thriving community AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, helping each other learn about and growing our businesses, we need to have more participation in the group level, or change the format to make it fit our needs better, especially the one’s who are participating regularly. To do that, here are the changes I am going to be making. We will continue here on the Skool platform through the month of September, as I evaluate our needs and participation. Also starting next Monday, August 31st, I will be changing our community over to a “Paid Subscription” Skool. The membership fee will be $19 a month FOR NEW MEMBERS ONLY WHO START ON AUGUST 31 AND BEYOND. All of our current 111 members and any New Members that join between today and this Sunday, August 30th, will be Grandfathered into their current member status. “FREE Members will continue to be FREE FOREVER until they leave the group. If they decide to rejoin later, they will have to rejoin at the subscription rate. If you are in the current “Standard,” $19 plan, you will continue on that plan until you leave the group. If you are on the current VIP plan, that will be eliminated and your membership will go down to the $19 a month subscription plan.

Happy Monday Syndicate Fam! I hope you all had a great weekend. I had a big weekend full of focus, goal setting, plan making, and a little fun in between. Later today I am going to post up some changes to the Success Syndicate, but first let's get back to our August and Quarterly Goal of making our businesses More Authentic and Visible. This last week, let's take some of what we learned the past 3 weeks and make a plan. If you missed out on any of August's Visibility Posts, I will pull them all together and put them in the classroom tab later. Build Your 30-Day Business Blueprint: A new week means a new strategy inside the LGBTQ Success Syndicate, and this week, we’re focusing on Creating Authentic Monthly Action Plans. You’ve probably heard the old saying: “If you fail to plan, your plan will likely fail.” A goal without an action plan is often just a good intention. Over the next five days, we’re going to build a practical 30-day roadmap for September, around four areas that can move your business forward: Sales. Marketing. Networking. Leadership. The goal is not to cram more onto your calendar. It’s to decide what actually matters, create measurable targets, and connect those targets to specific actions you can realistically complete. Instead of saying: “I want more customers.” Try: “I want three new clients in the next 30 days, so I will contact five prospects each week, follow up with past leads, and make one clear offer every week.” That is the difference between a wish and a plan. Monday Action: Choose Your 30-Day Destination Take 10 minutes today and answer this question: If my business were noticeably stronger 30 days from now, what would have changed? Then identify ONE measurable goal for each category: SALES: What revenue, clients, customers, or memberships do I want? MARKETING: What visibility or content result will I create? NETWORKING: Who do I need to meet, reconnect with, or collaborate with? LEADERSHIP: What habit, system, decision, or responsibility will I improve?

Hey everyone! Well my Seattle trip was a whirlwind, and I made so many connections, got so much positive feedback, have at least 2 new brand ambassadors, and most importantly made some real friends beyond just networking. Part of what I gathered from my meeting there is that a lot of people needed help figuring out how to use AI to build something like LezFindr that has so many moving parts. I was thinking of starting a Google Meets meetup maybe bi-weekly for queer founders that need some help building with AI, and keeping your business going with AI as a tool. My question before I go full Josh on this is I wanted to know if this is something that might also be helpful to those in this group? If I do this, is there something you'd like to see there? I was thinking that each call I could also maybe save like 1 non-sensitive thing I have to do for LezFindr and do it live so everyone could just see the flow that works for me. Totally open to discussions and feedback on this, but I just want to help uplift other creators however I can.